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...gift was the third Harvard has received in the last year from Japanese sources. The Mitsubishi companies gave the Law School 1 million to endow a chair in Japanese legal studies and the Nissan and Toyota automobile companies gave 1 million to the Japan Institute...
...Japanese government grant follows a $1-million gift to the Law School from the Mitsubishi companies and $1 million donation to the institute from both the Nissan and Toyota automobile companies...
Nobody has tapped this sensitivity to image more than Harvard's Reischauer. In Japan six weeks ago he accepted a check for $1,000,000 from Nissan Motor Co.; a similar sum was soon pledged by Toyota, Japan's other leading carmaker. But the former Ambassador to Japan (1961-66) will need all his diplomatic skill to achieve his ambitious goal: he is seeking funds to set up a $15 million Japan Institute at Harvard, and he hopes to get two-thirds of the money from Japan...
With the grant, Toyota Motor Company joined Nissan Motors, which also contributed $1 million to the institute last month, and Mitsubishi Industries, which gave the same amount to endow a chain in Japanese legal studies last year...
Reischauer will accept the gift from Nissan in Tokyo later this month...